Philippa Cowderoy wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 14:56 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
>> However, it's also arguably the case that you shouldn't care about port number ordering. That smells dodgy to me.
> Port ranges aren't that uncommon.
That's exactly were I need the comparison. I'm writing a program which
takes a range of port numbers and tries to open a socket with the first
available port number. The whole thing is part of a distributed system
and I cannot specify just a single port number because I could already
been taken.
Stefan